Could You Be Descended from Genghis Khan? #dna #ancestry #history

Added: 2026-06-01

[00:00:00]800 years later, his DNA lives on in an estimated 16 million people across Asia.

[00:00:06]One in every 200 humans alive today is a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.

[00:00:12]That number, 16 million, was discovered in 2003 by a team of geneticists studying a Y chromosome pattern that appears in an almost impossible frequency across a region stretching from Central Asia to China.

[00:00:26]There is no other explanation. The grave is empty. The man is everywhere.